Transforming the Landscape
of Health Care:
Promoting Health
through Preventive Law

                            


Medical-legal partnerships address the social determinants that negatively impact the health of vulnerable populations.  With doctors well-positioned to screen patients for unmet legal needs through regular contact and a position of trust, and lawyers able to bring a new type of expertise to the healthcare setting, patients are treated more holistically than in a typical medical exam room and are seen earlier than in a traditional legal services office.  (Click here to view Cleveland Community Advocacy Program's Robert Wood Johnson grantee profile video.)

                                                 

  

Just as the medical profession advocates preventive health care, so too by entering into these partnerships with health care providers, the legal profession can advance a "preventive law" strategy for addressing clients’ social and economic problems and thereby improve clients’ health and well-being, especially those from low-income and other under-served communities.

American Bar Association Resolution in Support of Medical-Legal Partnership (2007)    

 

The Medical-Legal Partnership for Children (MLPC) National Center is a program of Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center.

 

To learn more about MLPC | Boston, please visit their website.